Classicly Books
Preliminary Report on Gowganda Mining Division District of Nipissing Ontario
W. H. CollinsThe Algoma-Nipissing boundary line was run in 1897 by Alexander Niven, O.L.S. These surveys, with representations of some of the larger lakes, had been compiled by the Geological Survey of Canada on a..
The Builders
Fox B. HoldenThe only trouble was, there seemed to be fewer and fewer new plans as the years went by. And now, even when you found some, you had to check its potentialities exhaustively before you started building..
The Workers - An Experiment in Reality. The West
Walter A. WyckoffWe are tired and very hungry, and not a little discouraged; we should be almost desperate but for one redeeming fact. The silver lining of our cloud has appeared to-night in the form of falling snow. ..
With John Paul Jones
John Thomas McIntyreShamus O’Moore took his young master’s horse and his own to a neighboring stable where they were in the habit of putting them up, and then returned to the state house. Ethan was busy with a huge portf..
Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal Vol. 2 (of 3)
James MontgomeryThe early years of Galileo were, like those of almost all great experimental philosophers, spent in the construction of instruments and pieces of machinery, which were calculated chiefly to amuse hims..
Knole and the Sackvilles
V. Sackville-WestThe whole pile soars to a peak which is the clocktower with its pointed roof: it might be the spire of the church on the summit of the hill crowning the mediaeval village. At sunset I have seen the si..
Rachel - A Play in Three Acts
Angelina Weld GrimkéBefore the sewing-machine, Mrs. Loving is seated. She looks worried. She is sewing swiftly and deftly by hand upon a waist in her lap. It is a white, beautiful thing and she sews upon it delicately. I..
The Great White North
Helen S. WrightBetween the lines of their simple language describing stern facts or desperate realities, one reads the character and temperament of the adventurer; one gathers lessons of patience, self-sacrifice, an..